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A Christian Response to Pride Month: Pride and Sabbath

If you read my last piece1, you are deservedly waiting for the pay off. While I have sympathy for Carl Trueman’s call for all out opposition to the celebration and symbols of Pride Month, I argued that social revolution is not the only thing on display. Instead, it…

Donald RothJune 22, 2022

Articles & Essays Culture

A Christian Response to Pride Month: Is Pride Revolution or Carnival?

It’s relatively easy for someone working at a religious institution and living in a rural space like I do to live outside the thick of much of what June has come to entail as “Pride Month.” At the same time, my birthday falls at the…

Donald RothJune 21, 2022

Articles & Essays Culture

Spirits of the Age – Developing a Vocabulary to Articulate How We Live in Our Contemporary Age

We need to nurture our ability to discern the way of the world around us. This ability needs to move beyond a vague sense of things; we need to develop a vocabulary to help us articulate what we sense around us so that we can…

Donald RothJune 24, 2021

Articles & Essays Culture

OK for Boomers: How Do We Remember Those Who are Locked Down as We Open Up?

So much is novel right now. In facing a novel coronavirus, we’ve chosen a novel societal response that raises novel questions about economics, policymaking, the reach of law, religion, and so much more. With so much novelty, there is a wave of uncertainty that carries…

Donald RothJune 6, 2020

Articles & Essays Culture

New Year, New You? Unpacking the Liturgy of the New Year’s Resolution

One of the great traditions of American popular culture is the New Year’s resolution. Surveys say somewhere between a third and half of all Americans make New Year’s resolutions in any given year. At the same time, as few as 19% will consider their efforts successful two years later.…

Donald RothJanuary 3, 2019

Articles & Essays Culture

The Fortnite Phenomenon: Should Christians be Wary?

The news coverage is enough to make concerned parents switch to panic mode: a young girl is so addicted to Fortnite that she wets herself rather than get up and leave a match, leading her to be committed to a rehab clinic for gaming addiction.…

Donald RothJuly 11, 2018

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A Christian Response to Pride Month: Pride and Sabbath

A Christian Response to Pride Month: Is Pride Revolution or Carnival?

Spirits of the Age – Developing a Vocabulary to Articulate How We Live in Our Contemporary Age

OK for Boomers: How Do We Remember Those Who are Locked Down as We Open Up?

New Year, New You? Unpacking the Liturgy of the New Year’s Resolution

The Fortnite Phenomenon: Should Christians be Wary?

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